Cover of Griggs Yvonne Griggs: Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear

Griggs Yvonne Griggs Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear

A close study of the relationship between text and film

Price for Eshop: 795 Kč (€ 31.8)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

E-Book information

Bloomsbury Publishing

2014

PDF
How do I buy e-book?

224

978-1-4081-4400-8

1-4081-4400-X

Annotation

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic`offshoots') and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text isadapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of theoriginal text. There are many references to the literary text and screenplays andthe book also features quotations from directors and critics. There isplenty of discursive material here to support student work on both filmand literature courses.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.